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SQUEAK MEGA ART DUMP

Aaaaah thank you so much dear anon!

I do my sketches on paper! For the Trigun comic, I mostly want to be quick, and I'm not so good at doing nice looking quick sketches digitally, so I use paper and a black polychromo, a coloured pencil.´(Harder to erase than normal lead pencil, but makes nice dark lines)

And I normally write out the dialogues before and imagine in my head how I want the structure of the panels, so I just start directly with the drawing, instead of making a sketch before.

(my other bkdk comic looks a bit different, for this I made little thumbnail pages, which is normally recommended so you can have a look at the flow of your pages, of the panelling and all. I tried to be extra thoroughly and even made sketches with a light blue pencil, but as a negative effect, that process takes SO much longer. Since there are so many stages before the final drawing, there's the possibility that the drawing can turn out more stiff/rigid, and I actually like the style from my recent Trigun comic more because it's more dynamic and spontaneous...but well, sketches tend to be more dynamic)

i think that even if the plot of trigun never happened Vash and Wolfwood would still find a way to be insufferable together god bless <3

based on this + bonus doodle 

(please forgive the shitty google translation but ya get the gist of it)

So, what I am getting from this is:

canonically, Vash avoids falling in love with humans (and from what we can see in the manga, any sexual interaction too) because their lives are far too short and he wouldn't be able to 'share a full future' with them.

Okay, okay. Mr Stampede what did you mean by this then?

Everyday, Vashwood gets more canon in a way that hurts even more than the last and I can't stand it.

What do you mean Vash doesn't want to fall in love with people whose lives will inevitably end before his and he ends up falling for the one guy that was doomed from the start to die young.

Wait hold on let me Google something

It's about persisting through the most horrific obstacles imaginable, and never losing hope for yourself and others. It's about the fruit your efforts bear, but it doesn't ignore the ugliness of the suffering you endure. It doesn't sweep it under the rug to give you a happy ending.

As a jaded millennial, I get a bit tired of stories where everything turns out fine because the heroes tried hard. Most stories gloss over the repercussions of failure. They tell us it's all simply a means to an end, and that end is what matters. Overcoming your obstacle matters. Winning matters.

Trigun doesn't do this.

Vash gets hurt (gross understatement). He's ostracized, bullied, threatened, haunted, forced to see the darkest underbelly of humanity. He's subjected to the worst parts of life that are grotesquely ruthless, unforgiving, hopeless. He's forced to reconcile a lot of his goals (like never killing anyone), but not the core of his beliefs.

Not once does he falter in his trust that people are capable of good, that we all deserve that chance to be. He never has a revelation that shakes his faith in humanity, despite constantly being given every reason to. He's the irritatingly optimistic anime protagonist who looks at impossible odds and says "everything will be alright", the way no one can in real life because it never works out that way for us.

And it doesn't for him, either.

Vash does his best, believes in himself, and fails. over and over and over again. He loses everything--loved ones, memories, autonomy. He loses constantly. He's your unrealistically positive hero, being dealt realistically unfavorable hands.

And still, he persists. He never truly wins. Because we never truly win. Life has no happy ending like a story does.

He never truly wins, and yet, he can still find happiness. He meets friends, enjoys good food, watches people love fiercely in both blessing and hardship. He hits unbelievable lows that don't keep him from finding highs. Because he never stops trying to be the best of what he sees in humanity. Because every little bit counts. He never stops believing in humans--believing in you.

Trigun grabs you by the face and stares directly at you. It says "I see you, I see your pain, how much you struggle. I see how sometimes no matter how hard you try, things don't work out. Life isn't a fairy tale. I see how your kindness can come back to hurt you, hurt others. I see you, and I'm proud of you. Life is worth living with love in your heart not because we win, but because we try. We all try. Never stop trying to be kind."

Trigun shows you the cruel reality of life, and leaves you feeling good about it.